Images of the Day

An Air India plane at Newark Liberty International Airport during a snow storm that caused thousands of flights to be canceled in the Northeast on Dec. 26, 2010, in Newark, N.J.

At the end of North Shore Road, at Longboat Key's tip, the beach has eroded almost up to the road.

Russell Jones rides his ATV through the mud in North Port in this June 2006 file photo.

The space shuttle Discovery sits on the pad at the Kennedy Space Center in
Cape Canaveral before a launch in 2006. The nation's space shuttles are
scheduled to be retired this year.NEW YORK TIMES / CHANG W. LEE